In poor light these guys are hard to tell apart. Even in good light it's tricky.
[Stephen and I saw a raft of these today; he thought it would make a nice picture The green-headed guy is a Common Goldeneye, the blue-headed guys are Barrow's Goldeneyes. The rest are either females or immatures and pretty hard to ID. [For MickPt: ISO 100, f/8, 1/320 seconds, 280mm for a 35mm equivalent of 448mm] |
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I was just pleased to have a picture with both local types in it.
They are often close to shore in bad weather but then the light is bad.
They are perhaps slightly mis-named, only the males have gold eyes.